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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Ezra Pound

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

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